Well the article implies that BAe is wasting money because they don't know what they are doing... well, maybe they know what they are doing, as well as something we don't know. After all if you had exclusive discovery or theory in anti-grav, you wouldn't share it with everyone (unless you get a patent, but in the military field patents are void, so you just work stealthly)
Err, the problem is that I don't think MacOS-X is built on top of X-Windows, so with an Intel port they'd have to write new video drivers from scratch... not an easy thing.
With proper tactics, a numerically and technologically inferior force can cause serious problems for a ruling power.
Serious problem ? Maybe. But then, the serbian didn't win anyway. As for Vietnam, don't forget the USSR armed the opponents, they didn't just fight with their personnal arsenal. You can just stockpiles as much weapons as you want, if your governement decide to oppose you, they'll win. 2nd amendment or not.
Yeah, but if those million guys had been just "a well armed militia" they would have been wiped in no time by the Nazis... I'm affraid there's no way a bunch of citizen can stand up against an modern army nowadays. When the constitution was made there was nothing like F22, B52, Abraham M1, nukes, bio weapons, etc... a "well armed militia" is a complete anachronism nowadays. The founding fathers couldn't forsee 200 years of tech, social and economy evolution.
Yeah, next time an army of over a million guys armed up to the teeth (including tanks, mortars, machinegun, long range bomber and ballistic missiles) comes knocking to your dour, you can surely save your life with your shiny new G-Lock.
it is actually illegal to use crypto in france as is. you need to declare to the govert. that you will use crypto, abd give them the necessary info so that they can decrypt it.
I'm sorry but you are wrong. 40 bit key sizes are totally free, 128 bit is free as long as the software you use is declared to the gvt (declared!=crackable by the gvt). SSL 128 bit for example is legal...
No - you are free to speak whatever country you like in France, the only obligation is for business to communicate in French and provide French documentation for their product. Hard to call this "censorship"...
They almost learned from the USA in the 19th century when they started imitating our invention of democratic government
Ahem... "invented a democratic governement" ? Hello ? Anybody there ? Remember ancient Greece ? Remember the French revolution ? Democracy was around well before the 19th century, even before the first Vikings got their foot on what is now the USA.
Ah, American, they always believe they invented everything - Edison being a good example of that, very good at stealing others idea and claiming to be the first.
We use words like "honor", "courage", and "loyalty."
Yeah like "I did not have sex with Monika Lewinski" as well as "Read my lips : no more taxes"... if your "first citizen" are such liars and traitors, I can just imagine how a buch of red necks in KKK clothes and armed with assault rifles can use those words. Yeah, what a wonderfull country you live in. Have fun with George "Execution" Bush and Al "Internet" Gore.
France has a full digital system - it is 60M people, which is not so small... also you can get ISDN even in your trailer up in a secluded mountain, and for the same price as in urban areas.
What we need is to post all the "forbbiden" content (DeCSS, banned crypto, etc...) on one web site hosted in a liberal country (!= USA). That way it would be easier to find these software, and gathering media coverage would be easier.
1+ gigahertz (2 Ghz is later, it starts at 1.1 in 2001) Dual processor on one dies 500mhz bus LARGE L2 cache (I would imagine 2-4mB 64 bit ------------------------------- x86 CPU's:: 1+ gigahertz (this year, should be 1.5 to 2 Ghz by the time the Power4 launch) One processor on die 400mhz bus (not 200 Mhz) 512kB-2mB L2 cache (most probably 1 MB, but the Forster will have up to 4 MB since it is a Willamette for servers) 32 bit
Sweden is a neutral country. And I don't see how a US court order could have any influence on a swedish ISP. A US judge isn't yet a Ruler of the world.
sunk the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of GreenPeace in the South Pacific, killing two anti-nuclear activists
They killed one, and by mistake since the boat was supposed to be empty. Of course the French could have sunken it when it was crusing into the French military restricted area, which would have been their legitimate right, but prefered to do it when the boat was empty. And for the dead guy, well, that's too bad, but death is a risk one must accept when violating a military area (especially when you do so with a bunch of recording equipement).
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Maglevs, inductatrack and WIGE based technologies dont have this problem.
Well I would say they have even more this problem, precision is at least as important for these systems than for regular tracks for high-speed train. Plus the cost of maglev per km is way higher than regular quality tracks.
Although I must say maglev is cool:-)
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Who needs maglev, when the French TGV, which use standard rails, go faster than 500 km/h and has been in use for years.
Reminds me of the high-speed connexions : they all praised fiber-optics, but it is the cheap old copper cable that enables ADSL.
In reality, the U.S. *severely* regulates its contractors
On the surface maybe - just like any country supposedly do. In reality, all, and by this I mean ALL really large foreign contracts involve some palm greasing at one point. There is no such thing as a multibillion $ weapon sale without some bribering. If a US company can't do it officially, they'll give some "commissions" to a guy in a Bahamas bank, who in turn will give part of it to someone, who will give its share to some important guy or its political party.
Heck, if some pentagon guys get their share of the money, I don't really see how an underpaid official in a third wirld country couldn't get his share of the contract.
As for civil airplanes sales, large ones have also their share of "unofficial" deals. When bribery is not enough the US sends Albright to do a little visit in the name of "a long time friendship" between the US and Nowhereland and take care of finishing the deal (in exchange of whatever favor she can't give away). I'm not saying it is worse than in Europe, it is just the same thing.
Finally, it's kind of stupid to say that I shouldn't say anything bad about a foreign company because of imperfections in a domestic company.
Well, if you say something bad about a foreign country just to make yours look better, when in fact it is as bad (if not worse), then I belive this is not fair. Europeans have their share of imperfections, but to point your finger at Airbus as more corrupt than Boeing is just plain hypocrisis (or if you truly believe that, then welcome to the real world - one where everybody is not as nice and honest as they pretend)
Ooooh now of course Boeing has never given a bribe to anybody... clean your own backyard first ! everybody knows that all big market (planes / weapons / big construction projects) requires bribes. Even your own governement has a fair amount of people living of those kind of contracts !
You really want a screen with a DVI connector - that way you can have direct digital input to your screen and perfect image - the way flat screens were meant to be used !
(note that you also need a card with a DVI output to use this feature, but if you've got the cash for a flat screen then I guess paying a STB 3D Prophet DDR DVI is not an issue:)
Hey, maybe its time for Nasa to work with someone more professionnal, that doesn't put into the trash pricey parts or send informations in non-metric units... someone like Airbus;)
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Well the article implies that BAe is wasting money because they don't know what they are doing... well, maybe they know what they are doing, as well as something we don't know. After all if you had exclusive discovery or theory in anti-grav, you wouldn't share it with everyone (unless you get a patent, but in the military field patents are void, so you just work stealthly)
Err, the problem is that I don't think MacOS-X is built on top of X-Windows, so with an Intel port they'd have to write new video drivers from scratch... not an easy thing.
With proper tactics, a numerically and technologically inferior force can cause serious problems for a ruling power.
Serious problem ? Maybe. But then, the serbian didn't win anyway. As for Vietnam, don't forget the USSR armed the opponents, they didn't just fight with their personnal arsenal. You can just stockpiles as much weapons as you want, if your governement decide to oppose you, they'll win. 2nd amendment or not.
Yeah, but if those million guys had been just "a well armed militia" they would have been wiped in no time by the Nazis... I'm affraid there's no way a bunch of citizen can stand up against an modern army nowadays. When the constitution was made there was nothing like F22, B52, Abraham M1, nukes, bio weapons, etc... a "well armed militia" is a complete anachronism nowadays. The founding fathers couldn't forsee 200 years of tech, social and economy evolution.
30000 doesn't sound like a lot of money - this thing would be deadly cool provided you live in an open enough area (not a packed Euro city).
Yeah, next time an army of over a million guys armed up to the teeth (including tanks, mortars, machinegun, long range bomber and ballistic missiles) comes knocking to your dour, you can surely save your life with your shiny new G-Lock.
Good luck.
it is actually illegal to use crypto in france as is. you need to declare to the govert. that you will use crypto, abd give them the necessary info so that they can decrypt it.
I'm sorry but you are wrong. 40 bit key sizes are totally free, 128 bit is free as long as the software you use is declared to the gvt (declared!=crackable by the gvt). SSL 128 bit for example is legal...
That's what people in UK say...
it's illigal to make any cryptografy at all there
No, it is legal, the encryption key size is just limited to 128 bit (which is plenty at this time)
From demands on what language may be used
No - you are free to speak whatever country you like in France, the only obligation is for business to communicate in French and provide French documentation for their product. Hard to call this "censorship"...
bans on encryption
No it is legal, only limited to 128 bit.
They almost learned from the USA in the 19th century when they started imitating our invention of democratic government
Ahem... "invented a democratic governement" ? Hello ? Anybody there ? Remember ancient Greece ? Remember the French revolution ? Democracy was around well before the 19th century, even before the first Vikings got their foot on what is now the USA.
Ah, American, they always believe they invented everything - Edison being a good example of that, very good at stealing others idea and claiming to be the first.
We use words like "honor", "courage", and "loyalty."
Yeah like "I did not have sex with Monika Lewinski" as well as "Read my lips : no more taxes"... if your "first citizen" are such liars and traitors, I can just imagine how a buch of red necks in KKK clothes and armed with assault rifles can use those words. Yeah, what a wonderfull country you live in. Have fun with George "Execution" Bush and Al "Internet" Gore.
France has a full digital system - it is 60M people, which is not so small... also you can get ISDN even in your trailer up in a secluded mountain, and for the same price as in urban areas.
Why don't the geek fight back and block all Mattel related official sites from our DNS ? That way they TOO can enjoy the fun of being censored...
How do you backup that beast ? 75 GB to backup is huge - even with tapes (which are sloooowwwww) it is going to be a real pain.
What we need is to post all the "forbbiden" content (DeCSS, banned crypto, etc...) on one web site hosted in a liberal country (!= USA). That way it would be easier to find these software, and gathering media coverage would be easier.
Sorry but your specs are wrong !
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1+ gigahertz (2 Ghz is later, it starts at 1.1 in 2001)
Dual processor on one dies
500mhz bus
LARGE L2 cache (I would imagine 2-4mB
64 bit
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x86 CPU's
1+ gigahertz (this year, should be 1.5 to 2 Ghz by the time the Power4 launch)
One processor on die
400mhz bus (not 200 Mhz)
512kB-2mB L2 cache (most probably 1 MB, but the Forster will have up to 4 MB since it is a Willamette for servers)
32 bit
Doesn't look so bad for x86 anymore...
Sweden is a neutral country. And I don't see how a US court order could have any influence on a swedish ISP. A US judge isn't yet a Ruler of the world.
sunk the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of GreenPeace in the South Pacific, killing two anti-nuclear activists
They killed one, and by mistake since the boat was supposed to be empty. Of course the French could have sunken it when it was crusing into the French military restricted area, which would have been their legitimate right, but prefered to do it when the boat was empty. And for the dead guy, well, that's too bad, but death is a risk one must accept when violating a military area (especially when you do so with a bunch of recording equipement).
Maglevs, inductatrack and WIGE based technologies dont have this problem.
:-)
Well I would say they have even more this problem, precision is at least as important for these systems than for regular tracks for high-speed train. Plus the cost of maglev per km is way higher than regular quality tracks.
Although I must say maglev is cool
Who needs maglev, when the French TGV, which use standard rails, go faster than 500 km/h and has been in use for years.
Reminds me of the high-speed connexions : they all praised fiber-optics, but it is the cheap old copper cable that enables ADSL.
Well, that's very interesting. I never knew that.
It is never too late to learn...
In reality, the U.S. *severely* regulates its contractors
On the surface maybe - just like any country supposedly do. In reality, all, and by this I mean ALL really large foreign contracts involve some palm greasing at one point. There is no such thing as a multibillion $ weapon sale without some bribering. If a US company can't do it officially, they'll give some "commissions" to a guy in a Bahamas bank, who in turn will give part of it to someone, who will give its share to some important guy or its political party.
Heck, if some pentagon guys get their share of the money, I don't really see how an underpaid official in a third wirld country couldn't get his share of the contract.
As for civil airplanes sales, large ones have also their share of "unofficial" deals. When bribery is not enough the US sends Albright to do a little visit in the name of "a long time friendship" between the US and Nowhereland and take care of finishing the deal (in exchange of whatever favor she can't give away). I'm not saying it is worse than in Europe, it is just the same thing.
Finally, it's kind of stupid to say that I shouldn't say anything bad about a foreign company because of imperfections in a domestic company.
Well, if you say something bad about a foreign country just to make yours look better, when in fact it is as bad (if not worse), then I belive this is not fair. Europeans have their share of imperfections, but to point your finger at Airbus as more corrupt than Boeing is just plain hypocrisis (or if you truly believe that, then welcome to the real world - one where everybody is not as nice and honest as they pretend)
Ooooh now of course Boeing has never given a bribe to anybody... clean your own backyard first ! everybody knows that all big market (planes / weapons / big construction projects) requires bribes. Even your own governement has a fair amount of people living of those kind of contracts !
You really want a screen with a DVI connector - that way you can have direct digital input to your screen and perfect image - the way flat screens were meant to be used !
:)
(note that you also need a card with a DVI output to use this feature, but if you've got the cash for a flat screen then I guess paying a STB 3D Prophet DDR DVI is not an issue
Hey, maybe its time for Nasa to work with someone more professionnal, that doesn't put into the trash pricey parts or send informations in non-metric units... someone like Airbus ;)